SOLD 210 carbon monosteel gyuto

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$50 shipped

212mm edge
42mm tall
1.8mm spine at heel
1.4mm spine halfway
1mm spine 3cm from tip
0.7mm spine 1cm from tip
152 g

Differentially hardened . . . Not sure if hamon or weld like or something. Welds usually look different than that though. The steel above the line does polish and haze and seem softer with stone powder. Very tip is upswept.

The best wood I've felt in a handle. . . So warm and grippy, great handle countouring. . . Handle gaps though, and slightly short

Steel feels hard and very tactile while sharpening. Doesn't cut into food as nice as I'd like but sharpening is extremely pleasant, and responsive to pressure and higher grits. I kind of hand to push it through food . . . whereas my favorite food steels just bite and go right into it. This knife however does bite into hair and fingernails and everything else quite well though so idk. Compared the normal Takahashi hamono steel which feels like skd, this feels like blue 2. . . Not quite white which often feels buttery, not quite SK which feels plasticky, not quite V2 which feels a bit purer but alloyed, not swedish though that has various grades . . .

Probably Takahashi hamono, with higher polish than usual, and machine grinder marks instead of their normal hand grinding I've seen.

 

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Great as a line knife. Looks like got plenty of life left.